The shortest love story
Feb 16, 2021
4 minutes
WORDS: FIONA LOCKE, BESS BROWNING.
As I swiped through various eligible bachelors on a dating app, I groaned at how few men seemed a compatible match for me. Friends told me to persevere with my quest for love but the apps were tiresome and I often found my finger hovering over the ‘delete’ button. I wasn’t settling for anything less than perfect. Then, in October 2017, a profile appeared on my app that made me pause. The stranger’s deep blue-green eyes and friendly smile raised my hopes.
Three weeks later, after hundreds of messages exchanged between us, I was finally meeting Sean face to face. But to my humiliation, I’d dressed up as
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